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LIFE's EVENING.-The evening of

LIFE's EVENING.-The evening of
every mans life is coming apace.
The day of life will soon be spent.
The sun though it may be up in mid
heaven, will pass swiftly down the
western sky and disappear. What
shall light up mans path when the
sun of life has. gone down =? lie
must travel on to the next world, but
what shall illuminate his footsteps
after the nightfall of this journey
What question is more important,
more practical, more solemn, for
each reader of our journal to ask
himself? That is long journey to
travel without friend. Yet every
man must perform it. Time is not
far distant when all men will begin
the Journey. There is an evening
star in the natural world, its radi-
ance is bright, and beautiful and
cheering to the benighted traveller.
But life's evening star is good hope,
it's beauty and brilliancy are reflect
ed from the Sun of Righteousness
whose bright rays light up the even
ing Of life and throw their radiance
quite across the darkness Of the grave
into Immanuel's land. Ithas illumi-
mated the foot prints of many a trav-
eler to eternity. 1t is of priceless
value. A thousand worlds cannot
purchase it, yet it is offered without
money and without price to him who
will thankfully receive it.
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It will not be difficult to mention
cases in which eminent individuals
have been preserved from danger
and death by the manifest hand of
Providence.
John Knox, the Scotch Reformer,
had many enemies, who sought to
compass his destruction. He was in
the habit of sitting in a particular
chair in his own house, with his
-hsck,to the window. One evening,
However, when assembling his fami-
ly, he would neither occupy his ac-
castomed seat, nor allow any one
else to do so. That very evening
bullet was sent through the window
With design to kill him. 1t grazed
the chair which he usually occupied
and made hole in the candlestick.
1t is related of Augustine that ne
was going on one occasion to preach
at q distant town, and took guide
10 direct him on his way. BY some
means the guide mistook his way,
and got into by-path. 1t was after
wards discovered that a party of mis-.
creants had designed to waylay and
murder him and that his life was
saved through the guides mistake.
Charles of Bala was once saved
from death by what some would
call a foolish mistake. On one OF
his journeys to Liverpool his saddle
bag was put into the wrong boat.
He had taken his seat when he had
discovered it, and had to change at
the last minute. At first he was
vexed and disappointed, but he af-
forwards learned that the boat in
which he intended to 60 in was lost.
and all its passengers drowned.
Howard, the philanthropist, was
once preserved from death by what
some would call mere chance, but
which was no other than special
Providence. He always set a high
value on Sabbath privileges, and
was exact and careful in his attend
apce on the means of grace. That he
might neither increase the labor Of
his servants, nor prevent their at
tendance on public worship, he was
accustomed to walk to the chapel at
Bedford, where he attended. One
day man whom he had reproved for
his idle and dissolute habits. re-
solved to waylay and murder him.
That morning, however, for some
reason or other, he resolved to 60 on
horseback, and by a different road.
Thus his valuable and precious life
was saved. -,
The Rev. John Newton was in the
habit of regarding the hand of God
in everything, however trivial 1t
might appear to others. 1.-THE way
of man is not in himself" he would
say. II do not know what belongs
to a single step. When / 60 to St,
Mary Woolnoth, it seems the same
t whether 1 90 down Lothberry, or
90 through the Old-JeWry but the
going through one street and not an
other may produce an effect of last
ing consequence. A man cut down
my hammock in sport, but had he
cut it down half an hour later had
not been here, as the exchange of the
crew was then making. A man
made smoke on the seashore at the
time ship was passing, which was
thereby brought to, and afterwards
brought me to England"
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CHAPTER XVII.
SILAS IS CONVINCED.

At first Bessie was utterly prostrated by
the blow that had fallen on her, but as time
went on sho revived little, for hers was
sanguine nature with great deal Of elas-
ITCHY about it. Troubles sink into the souls
of some like water into sponge, and weigh
them down almost to the grave. From Others
they run Off as the water would if poured
upon marble, merely wetting the surface.
She was neither the one nor the other Of
these, but rather of substance between the
two-a healthy, happy hearted woman, full
of beauty and vigor, made to bloom in the
sunshine, not to languish in the shadow Of
some old grief Women Of her stamp do not
die Of broken hearts or condemn themselves
70 lifelong celibacy as u sacrifice to the shade
Of the departed If No. is unfortunately re-
moved, they, as general rule, shed many
tear and suffer many a pang, and after
decent interval very sensibly turn their at
tention to No. 2.
Still it was very pale faced, quiet Bessie
who went to and fro about the place
after the visit of the one eyed kaffir.
All her irritability had left her now;
she no longer jumped down her uncle's
throat about his having dispatched John
to Pretoria. Indeed, OH that very even
ing after the evil tidings came, he began to
reproach himself bitterly in her presence for
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REST A WHILE.-Yes, rest while,
says DR.. IT. Taylor. You are wear
ing out the vital forces faster than
there is any need, and in this way
subtracting years from the sum total
of your life. This rush and worry,
day after day, this restless anxiety
for something you have not got, is
like pebble stones in, machinery !;
they CRATE and grind the life out of
you.
You have useless burdens; throw
them off. You have great load of
useless care; dump it. Pull in the
strings; compact your business; take
time for thought Of better things.
Go out in the air and let Gods sun
shine upon your busy head. Stop
thinking of business and profit ; stop
grumbling at adverse providences.
You will probably never see much
better times in this doomed world
and your most opportune season is
now; your happiest day is to-day:
Calmly do your duty, and let God
take care of his own world. He is
still alive and is the King.
Do not imagine that things will
go to everlasting smash when you
disappear from this mortal stage.
DO not fancy that the curse of heav-
en-, in the vain task of righting up a
disjointed earth, is imposed upon
you. Cease to fret and fume cease
to Jump and worry early and late.
The good time is coming, but you
can never bring it. God can, and
will; take breath sit down and rest,
and take long breath. Then 60
calmly to the task of life, and do
yOur work we'll.
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SAYINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.


SAYINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.
Agassiz's intense enthusiasm in his
favorite study of natural history is
we'll known, and its permanent fruits
are now seen in the great museum
in Cambridge, the most comprehen-
sive in the United States, and one of
the finest in the world. But it is
not so we'll known that he pursued
his study with a deliberate sacrifice
of personal advantage, and of the Op-
portunity of wealth. He was a pop
ular lecturer, and could have made
his own terms with lyceums eager to
hear him. But this reply to such
overtures is one of the noblest on
record:
II cannot afford to make money"
A reply equally noteworthy was
made by Albert Gallatin, one of the
great statesmen and financiers of the
post Revolutionary period. He was
successor to Hamlin as the Secreta-
ry of the Treasury, and managed the
national finances with equal ability
and success. But his manner of liv-
ing was a model of Republican SIM
plicity, and he died poor, though
millions passed through his hands.
The great banker, Alexander Bar
ing, admired his character, and was
troubled that so noble a man should
be hampered by inadequate means
of living. He offered Mr.. Gallatin a
handsome fortune, which would have
made him comfortable to the end OF
hislife. Mr.. Gallatin firmly declined
it, saying with emphasis:
"The man who has the direction
of the finances of country should
never die rich"
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Thereon the whole mass Of Beers, with the
exception Of Muller, who was standing
watching seeing that he was now defenseless,
fell upon him and would have kicked him to
death had not Bessie precipitatcd herself upon
him with cry and thrown her arms about
him to protect him.
Then Frank Muller interfered, fearing lest
she should he hurt. Plunging into the fray
with u curse lie exercised his great strength,
throwing the men this way and that like
ninepins and finally dragging Silas to nis feet
again.
"Come" he shouted, stake him out Of this;
and accordingly, with taunts and obloquy,
the poor old man, whose fringe Of white locks
was red with bood, was kicked and dragged
and pushed OH to the veranda, then OFF it on
to the drive, where he fell over the body OF
the murdered Kattr boy, and finally hauled
up to the open space by the flagstaff, on which
tie Union Jack, that he had planted there
some two months before, still waved bravely
in the breeze. Here he sank down upon the
grass his back against the flagstaff, and asked
faintly for some water. Bessie, who was
weeping bitterly, and whose hea t felt as
though it were bursting with anguish and In
dignation, pushed her way through the men
and, running to the house, got so:ne in glass
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THE ONE FOUNDATION,

What is the one foundation The
answer of the apostle is brief. 1t is
Jesus Christ. Notice that it is no
abstraction or parcel of distractions.
1t is no new theory of the universe,
such as philosophy or natural religion
might PROFOUND. 1t is a living per-
son. TO the same effect was the
Saviour's own definition of that
which underlies Christianity and the
Church, the essential ground work,
when, in reponse to Peters fervent
declaration respecting him, that he
is the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus
affirmed that on this rock the Church
is built. TO the Christians of the
New Testament age Jesus was per-
son as real as Peter or Paul. Even
when he had gone out of theirsight, he
was not less living person whom,
not having seen, they loved, and for
whose visible appearing they looked
with a yearning that did much to
create the belief in it that it was
near at hand.
In general, and against material
istic and pantheistic drift OF thought,
it is one need of the times that men
should vividly apprchend personal
being as a unique reality, distinct
from all things else and of infinite
significance. So within the pale OF
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SCnTLANn,S GREATNESS


They are spoken of equally as
Scotch, yet the difference is not less
marked, in reality, than if they were
separate nations. The Highlanders
still retain (or did retain when l knew
them,) many characteristics of a So
cial state from which the Lowlanders
have long since emerged. They were
noble rather than industrial in their
tastes and instincts, disposed for field
sports more than for the improve
ment of their condition by labor.
DR.. MacCulloch's description of their
inertia at the beginning of the centu-
ry was still applicable. The people
did not move, of themselves, toward
a better condition they had not the
spirit of Improvement. They were
surrounded, it is true, by natural cir
cumstances of some difficulty, espe-
cially those caused by the severity of
the climate, but they were far from
making the most of such opportuni-
ties as they possessed. For example,
in gardening, they did not grow, and
they could not be induced to grow,
the vegetables which the climate al
lows, even although the want of them
brought on scurvy. Their habita-
tions were wanting in every comfort,
being almost in the lowest stage of
cottage building, irregular wall of
rude stone, with small hole (glaZed,
however,) for a window and a low
hatch, the fire commonly on the floor,
and the peat reek escaping through
an opening in the roof. There was
no spirit of enterprise to improve the
ground about the habitations, or to
make communications easier when
the public road (due to the English
military energy) did not happen to
be close at hand. In a word, there
was nothing of that fruitful discon-
tent which leads the advancing races
to incessant Improvements. With
out the neighborhood of the Lowland
Scotch and the visits Of the English
the Highlanders would have remain
ed in very early stage Of civiliza-
ton. That early stage has it's quail
ties and merits. The Highlanders
have good manners. Poor or rich,
they are naturally gentlemen, and
they show fine endurance of hard
ship, which, from the stole and heroic
side, is evidently superior to the love
of luxury that develops itself as
wonderfully in the South.
On the other hand, it is not the
Highlanders, but the Lowland Scotch,
who have made the name of Scotland
great. 1t is they who have made the
land famous as a leader in literature,
with certain distinction in the fine
arts, considerable eminence in sci
ence, and great notable eminence
in all industrial pursuits. The Low
landers have written the famous
books, and built the great fleets Of
ocean going steamers. 1t is they
who have made the Edinburgh a
capital of intelligence and Glasgow a
capital of industry. The Highland
race had nothing but its valor and a
few legendary poems; no architect
ure beyond the building of a few
rude small castles, no arts beyond the
design of a brooch or the arrange
ment of the crossing stripes in a
plaid. a.. .s.-
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The SoFT-HEADED SKEPTIC.-A
young skeptic riding in astage forced
his sentiments on the company by
attempting to ridicule the Scriptures.
He ridiculed the story of youth like
David being able to throw a stone
with sufficient force to sink in the
head of the Giant Goliah. To which
remark, Quaker in the company
replied by saying: "Indeed, friend,
I do not think it unreasonable, if
Goliah's head was as soft as thine"
This adhomipem argument spiked
the gun of the youthful intidel.
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the Church we need to bring home

the Church we need to bring home
to the heart and imagination the
living personality of Jesus, to them
as one whose conscious personal life
and sympathetic heart are not less
real to day than when he sat in the
synagogue at Nazareth, or conversed
with his disciples at the last supper.
He carries forward his work spiritu-
ally and among men, the same work
which he began when his abode was
on the earth, only with a range of
influence less confined, where it was
experidient that he should 60 to the
Father.-Prof. G. =. FISHER.
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~ There cannot be a more worthy
Improvement on friendship than in
a fervent opposition to the sins OF
those whom we profess to love.
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4 PROTECTING PROVIDENCE.

ITO BE Continued
Telegram-herald., 1887-11-06

Landlord snow. OF Cadillac, q st Sweets.
Nj. Bond viii leave soon for Califor.
rls.
Miss Allie Barcbard Is visiting her uncle,
Il. BurcnsrG. 81 Ssw York CitF.
Joseph schoendorf. Of g. Johns, u IA the
city visiting friends over sunday.
Miss Stanton. Of North Front-st' il
visiting Mrs. Lane kaEssos, OF Holland
City.
Anna Goldsmith. o. Port Gibson. y. Y.
"a fhe guest Of Mss Anna Wstsrs At OAK
hurst.
Chesrfal add chippsr As ever William
Coonsr. he travelling clothing merchant,
turns ap lD town.
F. e. rromolsH manager Of TIE Tower
Ciothinx Company. Is back from NJ. Ciem-
sns. alGoh improved IN health
Burt Evsrs, Of Owosso. has entered upon
rs dulies A. mai agent on the route be
t~rer tais sisy snd East saginaw.
NrsI Lucy Burcasrd of ColIsrs-svs. has
rSsaFi1eo after = three months visit vita
xsistives aud friends AZ Csnandsigus. y. Y.
John G. Kendall Who has oe~n trsvslins
Tor Eds0n. Keith 81 Co. Of Chicago. VII
hereafter conduct the millinery business Al
his isshers Old stand on NOnroe-st Mr..
Kendall viii cpDssuus % represent ths
Chicego Arm hefs.
psn &. Sopsr. Postmaster General for the
middle wsisrs 0f the Autksgen river, . in
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that his oenfrers Postmaster General Via.
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oppose Don n. Dickinson successiop or
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Telegram-herald., 1887-11-06

Rev. John Graham, pastor Of the Division
Street NJ. K. Church will prsach this even
ing from False and True Success"
Rev. Charles Fluhyer will speak a. the
Universalist Church this morning on Self
hood and Selhshness." Evening subject,
The ContinuOusness of Revelation"
Public services will be held AT y. IN. by
the New and Latter House of Israel. al 4yO
Canal-st. Subject; The Last Trump"
The Ladies monthly missionary meeting
viii De held AZ the Church OF Christ this
afternoon at 4.30 o'clock.
Dr. Van DE Water the Missioo preacher,
will speak today ~ both morning and even
ing service AZ ST. Marks.
AT the South Congregational Church
this morning Rev. Ben F. Ssrg' mt will
preach on The Cross of Christ" follow ed
By the communion. In the evening be will
preach on "Bunyan's Allegory of Pilgrim 8
Progress"
Rev. H. P. welton will preach at the
First Presbyterian on Waking With
God"
Rev. T. w. y. Hugenholtz pastor OF the
Liberal Holland Church. will preach this
morning from The Anarchists" In the
evening his subject will be Cain and
Abel
DR.. Van De Water. bY request will give a
confidential talk on an avoided subject, for
men exclusively, in the Young Men 5
Building, corner Pearl and Ottawa-sts. to-
day at o'clock .. N. Ladies aud boys
will not De admitted
Telegram-herald., 1887-11-06

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ia i4rgs Gr.lses. painted 10 biack over IA
froas 4ld ealy el.EE-1cs u t1sir 1eanss tAs
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military measure bel3rs re cIsi gossTHHlent
sAs sst49l.sEea, 2ad Tor tke pgrpas~ q locas-
ins ara Identifying a tEuzas indLA1 chi-d
wien Asseut troln lne in4i4l sehool during
tne boufs II - lou. A. tts4s tine the Ia
dian cli4areH were compelled ~ TIE military
AQEaoriass q attead s,uooi, each scholar be-
ilg ooiged 9 wear a tag MADE Of TIA and
fastened - means of string around the
neck. lie tag was about three times the
SIZE of silver dollar. and bore tbs naInber
OF the child la school and the Eanbsr Of the
house Ia whleh il lived
III a child as found on tie street during
scnOol hours the Indian poll seman, who was
also ch ief OF the trlbe, and whose name l.
Annskoo5z, under strict orders 10 take
the number OF the tag and report il. The
next morning the head Indian Of tho house
u which tie child belonged was sum
uoued 70 appear and answer for the
absence OF tho truant, and II such absence was
found 70 have been willfGl the head Indian
was fined or imprisoned. few fines were
found sufficient and bad the effect Of procur-
ing a prompt and punctUal attendance Of all
the children. This means was found neces-
saTy ia order % overcome the antipathy or
the parents against having their children
educated, and thereby drawn away from the
ancient customs, traditions and msthods Of
hying OF their race
This custom has fallen into disuse since the
establishment of civil government in May,
leS4 The parents have come to know and
understand the benefits derived from the edu-
| cation Of their children, and are now quite
ready 70 lend their assistance in compelling
them 10 attend the school The term Of school
commences IN September OF each year, and
! continues forty-four weeks. There are ten
teachers and los scholars, with about equal
| proportions Of boys and girls, running in age
| from five To eighteen years, and representing
| the several tribes Of southeastern Alaska
| Tney are taught the primary English branches
| and the boys are also instructed in black
smlthing, cooperage, cabinet making and
/ carpentry, while the girls are taught Sc wing,
| knitting, cooking and various other house
hold duries.-Home Journal.